Umbartha
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jabbar Patel
Smita Patil
Girish Karnad
Daya Dongre
Kusum Kulkarni
Rajan Kinagi
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Savitri is a young wife and mother who lives with her husband, child, and her husband's family. They live comfortably, but she is unhappy there and wants a career. Her extended family objects when she is offered a job as the superintendent of a women's reformatory home in a distant town, but she accepts it. Savirtri is soon involved with helping the women in the institution, who include criminals, victims of domestic and sexual abuse, and mentally ill women. But after some months, she is taken to task by a managing committee who accuse her of several kinds of inappropriate behavior, interfering with the personal lives of the inmates, and even blame her for the death of two of them who committed suicide. A one-man commission is appointed to delve into the problems, and Savitri is forced with making the choice of facing her accusers or returning home, neither of which is a choice she wants to make.
